Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1997-08-28
Found.Phys. 27 (1997) 67
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
15 pages latex, published in Foundations of Physics, Vol 27, 67 (1997)
Scientific paper
G.Breit's original paper of 1929 postulates the Breit equation as a correction to an earlier defective equation due to Eddington and Gaunt, containing a form of interaction suggested by Heisenberg and Pauli. We observe that manifestly covariant electromagnetic Two-Body Dirac equations previously obtained by us in the framework of Relativistic Constraint Mechanics reproduce the spectral results of the Breit equation but through an interaction structure that contains that of Eddington and Gaunt. By repeating for our equation the analysis that Breit used to demonstrate the superiority of his equation to that of Eddington and Gaunt, we show that the historically unfamiliar interaction structures of Two-Body Dirac equations (in Breit-like form) are just what is needed to correct the covariant Eddington Gaunt equation without resorting to Breit's version of retardation.
Alstine Peter Van
Crater Horace W.
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